Staff bio: Simon Kelly, curator of modern and contemporary art

Simon Kelly, curator of modern and contemporary art since 2010, recently co-curated Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade (2017). Kelly co-curated Impressionist France (2014), and he curated the installation for the Grace Taylor Broughton Sculpture Garden, as well as several Currents exhibitions. He has published extensively on 19th and early-20th century French art including the book Untamed: the Art of Antoine-Louis Barye (2006), and essays in the exhibition catalogues Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883 (2007); In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet (2008); Manet, the Man who Invented Modern Art (2011); and Becoming Van Gogh (2012). Kelly worked previously at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate from Oxford University, where he also taught art history.